Revised 11/05/22
Diplopeltoididae Tchesunov, 1990
A family of free-living marine nematodes.
Features: From Holovachov and Bostrom (2004)
Cuticle annulated, no lateral alae, no ornamentation.
Cephalic capsule present.
Outer labial sensilla papilliform, cephalic sensilla setiform
Amphid ventrally spiral, inverted.
Stoma undifferentiated.
Female didelphic, ovaries reflexed.
Male diorchic testes outstretched, supplements absent.
Caudal glands present, spinneret present, males with caudal setae..
Note: Tchesunov, 1990 split the family Aegialoalaimidae Lorenzen, 1981 into three separate falilies:
Cyartonematidae for Cyartonema and Paraterschellingia
Diplopeltoididae for Diplopeltoides
Ref: Holovachov et al,. 2009
References
Andrassy, I. 1965. Free-living Nematodes of Hungary. I. Hungarian Natural History Museum
Holovachov, O. 2015. Description of Aegialoalaimus bratteni sp. n. from Skagerrak and a review of the genus (Aegialoalaimidae, Nematoda incertae sedis). Biodiversity Data J. doi: 10.3897/BDJ.3.e5738
Holovachov, O. and Bostrom, S. 2004. Morphology and systematics of the superfamily Leptolaimoidea Orley, 1880 and Camacolaimoidea Micoletzky, 1924 (Nematoda: Plectida). J. Nem. Morphology and Systematics 7:1-49.
Holovachov, O., De Ley, I.T., Mundo-Ocampo, M., Gingold, R., De Ley, P. 2009. Nematodes from the Gulf of Caklifornia. Part 3. Three new species of the genus Diplopeltoides Gerlach, 1962 (Nematoda: Diplopeltoididae) with overviews of the genera Diplopeltis Gerlach , 1962 and Diplopeltula Gerlach, 1950. Russian J. Nematol. 17:41-57.
Holovachov, O., Fadeeva, N., Tandigen De Ley, T., Mundo-Ocampo, M., Gingold, R., De Ley, P. 2012. Revision and phylogeny of Tarvaia Allgén, 1934 (Nematoda: Tarvaiidae). Nematology 14:677-708.
Lorenzen, S. 1981. Entwurf eines phylogenetischen Systems der freilebenden Nematoden.(Outline of a phylogenetic system for the free-living nematodes).Veroffentlichungen des Instituts fur Meeresforschung in Bremerhaven 1981 No.Suppl. 7 pp.472 pp.
Tchesunov, A.V. 1990. A critical review of the family Aegialoalaimidae (Nematoda: Chromadoria), trends in evolutionary development of marine nematode pharynx and a proposal of two new families. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 69:5-18.
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